Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Will there be war? . . . The best chance of avoiding war is, in accord with the other Western democracies, to bring matters to a head with the Soviet government . . . to arrive at a lasting settlement. There is certainly enough for the interests of all if such a settlement could be reached. . . . Even this method . . . would not guarantee that war would not come; but I believe it would give the best chance of preventing it, and that, if it came, we should have the best chance of coming out of it alive...
...francs on the open market, use them to get sterling credit at the official rate through a French agent-in effect, getting a pound for about $3. The British feared that dollars would be diverted from Britain to France, that Britain's booming export trade would bring in fewer dollars than Cripps had planned on. Moreover, with the cheaper francs, French exporters would be able to undersell British rivals...
...will be mostly glass, and finlike shades will protect them from the Mediterranean sun, a stunt Le Corbusier had tried in Rio de Janeiro. "Just as the human eye can stand the sun because it has eyelashes," says Le Corbusier, "rationally oriented sunbreaks will admit only those rays that bring pleasant warmth and cheer in every season...
Another of the stories is a neat though conventional sketch of a naval captain's obstinate and ultimately successful struggle to bring a torpedoed vessel back to port. The third is a first-rate portrait of a middle-aged man, veteran of World War I, who volunteers for "heavy rescue" work in London. Finding in his new job a pride he had lost during "the arid, desolate years between the wars," he achieves anonymous heroic stature by surrendering his life in a futile attempt to save a trapped man. This is certainly one of the best war stories written...
...contracts with Capitol and Disc come through, unlimited possibilities for the spring term will be within reach. High enthusiasm among band members has made intense activities outside the football season plausible for the first time in band history, and these efforts may bring further coinage into the coffers...